There is a flurry of new speculation surrounding claims from an EU intelligence source that a pair of Russian ships “almost certainly” carried jet fuel to Russian planes in Syria, which may or may not violate EU sanctions against shipping fuel into Syria.
Obviously Russia isn’t automatically subject to EU rules, but the ships are said to have stopped off in Cyprus, which might change things, though the ships didn’t get the fuel there, and Cyprus can’t confirm that either ship actually had jet fuel on it in the first place.
Russia is downplaying the matter, insisting that the EU sanctions are meant to stop supplies to the Syrian military, and don’t apply to Russia shipping fuel for its own jets operating in Syria. The EU Foreign Affairs spokeswoman insisted it was up to individual EU member states to decide whether to do anything about it.
That’s unlikely, as Cyprus appears to be the primary nation involved, and they aren’t entirely clear anything happened, and were soliciting information from anyone who might have any on any activity that might contravene sanctions.
The EU- what a pathetic organization.
It’s becum some bad art echo of the old Soviet Block. Bellicose bureaucracy posing as democratic representation…
That is BS and part of the provocations that may spark a real war.
Doesn’t glow in the dark and surely no spark. More like shooting up in the air with BLANKS.. Send a man, not an unic…
Good luck with that, EU.
I thought Russia wasn’t a part of the EU. So, what authority does the EU have over Russia sustaining the EU sanctions or not?
I do too and I’m so embarrassed by its stupidity and brown nosing of Obama and by extension HRC. Don’t they realise Obama is gone in two months and HRC is rubbish heap of history?
Brown nosing is too kind…. It’s more like they are gobbling up our soup of blood and turds…. First letting Victoria Nuland con NATO into killing, how many Afghans after our Saudi pals drove those planes into the buildibgs. Disgusting murder of innocent Pustunes. I am a man of peace but I am beginning to feel and think that America has becum an horrible death machine of innocents by deception, lies and bribery… Gulf of Tonkin was a lie and fraud… How many Vietnamese did we murder based on that lie…..?????
Two million…. Three Million…????? ,How many died when we poisoned their land with agent orange…???????? Can you hear me……..??????
And what about Iraq…??? We killed a MILLION Iraqis after Bush’s Saudi palls did 911… What sort of murderous monsters have we becum…… ,???????????
But Bebe’s pal got 6 billion from insurance…. On his 30 million investment All ligit…??? PUKE!!! Have a nice life of servitude..
Oh well…. Learn 2 live with it…. Learn to live with that we are owned like slaves.. Purchased with our own tax money. We don’ t own or control our OWN dollars.. We are Tax slaves to the New World Disorder…. The Federal Reserve is owned by foreigners… Not us..!!
I’m guessing Russia doesn’t give two hoots about the US puppets called the EU!